Thanks! That's my setup exactly, I'll try it when I get home. I just discovered alsamixer before I went to bed last night. Before that I was using amixer which is not exactly a friendly program to actually use... -s.
.------[ Zeratul wrote (Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 04:19:42PM +0100) ]------ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | >I have the same problem with the overdriven sound actually. I switched | >from OSS to ALSA last night, but now I have no sound. (I'm hoping I just | >haven't found the right channel yet.) Anyway, I've read that the one of | >the alsa channels supposedly will correct for the sound from a bt848 tv | >card. When (if) I find it I'll post the info for you. | >Seth | > | > | > | See the volume control tips at | http://opensrc.org/alsa/index.php?page=emu10k1 | for setting the alsa volume. | Especially this part: | "Recording from line/mic/cd(analog): | In alsamixer <http://opensrc.org/alsa/index.php?page=alsamixer>, set | Capture to something reasonable (I have 53) and *hit space bar* to | enable Capture. Then set the volume for the | source you want, and hit spacebar for capture on that too. I have AC97 | set to zero and AC97 Capture set to 100, not sure if this does anything, | but mic/line/cd recording now works for me." | If you're using line in on the SB live connected to line out on bt848 | (as most people seem to do) | | Zeratul | | >.------[ Scott Serr wrote (Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 01:52:13PM -0700) ]------ | >| | >| I was unable to get good recordings with OSS/kernel drivers. (Big | >| crackles, I might not have known what mixer settings to use at that | >time) | >| | >| ALSA made things work better. I was happy, but then I think setting | >| IGain to 1 sounds like it is over-driving a bit. ALSA's mixer for the | >| SBLive seems very confusing - there are so many bars. Using an OSS | >| mixer program with ALSA drivers was what finally worked for me. (I | >like | aumix, since I don't have X on the box) | >| | >| I wondered if the emu10k1 driver on sourceforge was any better, but it | >| behaves the same way. Which I guess is good enough. | >| | >| Has anyone been able to adjust the record level on a SB Live? What | >| driver and what mixer control? | >| | >| Thanks, | >| -Scott | >| | >| >>>I ended up doing that too. I haven't had a chance to try it out yet | >| >>>tho... Good to know it should work at least. | >| >>>Personally I think it would be reasonable to just leave out the | >igain | >>>setting entirely. At least for my setup turning the igain | >down never | >>>really accomplishes anything. | >| >>> | >| >>>Seth | >| >> | >| >I spent weeks experimenting with OSS drivers for my SB Live 5.1 and | >| >finally gave up and switched to alsa because even though I could | >record | >from tv with this fix, I never managed to get the centre | >speaker working | >when watching a DVD. Switching to Alsa made things so | >much easier. | >Because all the volume controls are labelled differently, | >there is no | >IGain, and hence it's never set to 0. | >| >Have a look at | >| >http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=emu10k1 | >| >for info on the volume controls. | >| > | >| >Alsa is really worth it. | >| > | >| >Zeratul | >| > | >| | >| | >| | >| | >| ------------------------------------------------------- | >| This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. | >| Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it | >| help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help | >| YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ | >| _______________________________________________ | >| Freevo-users mailing list | >| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | >| https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users | >| | >`------------------------------------------------- | > | > | > | >------------------------------------------------------- | >This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. | >Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it | >help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help | >YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ | >_______________________________________________ | >Freevo-users mailing list | >[EMAIL PROTECTED] | >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users | > | > | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------- | This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. | Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it | help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help | YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ | _______________________________________________ | Freevo-users mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users | `------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
